Women in the Viking Age - Softcover

Jesch, Judith

 
9780851153605: Women in the Viking Age
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0851153607 ISBN 13: 9780851153605
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1994

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Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN
This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world.
JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history, and offers a new perspective on viking society, very different from the traditional image of a violent and male-dominated world.

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Verlag
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0851153607
ISBN 13 
9780851153605
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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